Back garden – the first six months
Back in June I introduced the interim design for the back garden, but I haven’t yet got around to showing you how it looked during the rest of the year. Now it’s the end of the year, it seems like …
Blogging, and Athyrium otophorum var. okanum
There hasn’t been a lot of blogging going on recently. Once again, it’s because the ME is bad and most things are a struggle, and unfortunately blogging goes down the bottom of the to do list. However, I have managed …
Autumn light
A short study of Autumn light in the front garden. Capturing the exquisite blue of this Salvia patens ‘Blue Angel’. A sense of movement through Panicum virgatum ‘Squaw’ and Verbena bonariensis. The fairy wands of Pennisetum alopecuroides ‘Hameln’. Welcome to Autumn in …
Front garden – 3 months in
New front garden The front garden seems to have come a long way since the landscaping was done in June. Before the landscaping: After the landscaping (view from above as I seem to have not taken a photo from the …
Cars are mobility aids too
People can be incredibly judgemental about people who use mobility aids. They think you are cheating if you suddenly get out of your wheelchair, scooter etc, that you are faking it (often the thought extends to thinking you are lying …
Nursery visit: Millthorpe Nursery
On the weekend I discovered Millthorpe Nursery, in Holmesfield, just on the outskirts of Sheffield. I had pass the sign several times and kept meaning to drop in. And I finally made it, and so glad I did. It’s a …
Wordy Wednesday 14th August 2018: Shadow of Orion
Geranium ‘Orion’
An interim design for the new back garden
Work has completed on the back garden and I thought I should introduce the design and how it all looks now. The design for the back garden is not yet fully formed, but like with the front garden, I’d really like …